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John Proctor

1521 – 1558

English academic, schoolmaster and historian

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Lived 1521 – 1558 (aged 36–37). John Proctor was a writer.

John Proctor (1521–1558) was an English academic and schoolmaster, known as a historian.

Life A native of Somerset, Proctor was elected scholar of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in January 1537, and fellow of All Souls' College in 1540, graduating B.A. on 20 October 1540, and M.A. on 25 June 1544. He resigned his fellowship in 1546. there Francis Thynne was among his pupils. While it contains anti-papal commentary, it is also critical of theological aspects of the Protestant Reformation and the unorthodox sectarian views it ushered in. The Historie of Wyates Rebellion, with the order and manner of resisting the same, London, 1554, black letter, dedicated to Queen Mary. It was one of the authorities on which Raphael Holinshed based his chronicle. This account of Wyatt's Rebellion gives details on the part played in opposing it by Proctor's patron Judde. The Waie home to Christ and Truth leadinge from Antichrist and Errour, 1556, dedicated to Queen Mary; reissued, without dedication, 1565; this is a translation of the Liber de Catholicæ fidei antiquitate, by Vincent of Lérins.

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1521
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Died
1558
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English academic, schoolmaster and historian

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John Proctor was born in 1521.

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John Proctor died in 1558.

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John Proctor was a writer.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: John Proctor

· Wikidata: Q16863490

· DBpedia: John Proctor (historian)

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